beauty /ˈbjuːtɪ/ star3 CET4 TEM4 (beauties)

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  N-UNCOUNT（不可数名词） Beauty is the state or quality of being beautiful. 美丽

  例：

  ...an area of outstanding natural beauty.

  …一处具有非凡自然之美的地区。

• 2.  

  N-COUNT（可数名词） A beauty is a beautiful woman. 美人 [journalism]

  例：

  She is known as a great beauty.

  她是个众所皆知的大美人。

• 3.  

  N-COUNT（可数名词） You can say that something is a beauty when you think it is very good. 美的东西 [非正式]

  例：

  It was the one opportunity in the game – the pass was a real beauty, but the shot was poor.

  那是比赛中的一个机会–传球的确很漂亮，但射门却很糟。

• 4.  

  N-COUNT（可数名词） The beauties of something are its attractive qualities or features. 丽质 [文学性]

  例：

  He was beginning to enjoy the beauties of nature.

  他渐渐喜欢上了大自然的迷人之处。

• 5.  

  ADJ（形容词） Beauty is used to describe people, products, and activities that are concerned with making women look beautiful. 美容的 [ADJ n]

  例：

  Additional beauty treatments can be booked in advance.

  额外的美容项目可以提前预订。

• 6.  

  N-COUNT（可数名词） If you say that a particular feature is the beauty of something, you mean that this feature is what makes the thing so good. 优点; 妙处

  例：

  There would be no effect on animals – that's the beauty of such water-based materials.

  它将不会对动物产生影响–这就是该种基于水的材料的优点所在。